# Do girls get piss shivers?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 28, 2004, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236 "2004-07-28T05:23:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236/21 "2004-07-28T22:51:14Z")

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**you with the face** and I recently talked about how we sometimes shiver when we have to pee really really bad. But I’ve never shivered after peeing. That’s just weird. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236/22 "2004-07-28T22:58:52Z")

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OK, looks like academia has at least glanced at this, here’s some links:

[Academia 1](http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/jan2000/947350899.An.r.html) “It is my thought that the more desperate one becomes in response to a bulging bladder, the more of a general sympathetic outflow of action potential will be generated to keep you dry. This would include the release of the adrenal medulla catacholamines epinephrine, norepinephrine, and dopamine. When the opportunity arises to allow the parasympathetic side of the ANS to take over, the change in catacholamine production might be the cause of the shivering.”

[Academia 2](http://www.prematuree.com/qa/qa.php3?qa_id=284) "Actually, says Jon Cross, M.D., a neurologist at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, “the shiver is a response of the autonomic nervous system.”

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**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236/23 "2004-07-29T00:31:43Z")

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> Although it seems you and your friends are merely curious, this “age old” phenomenon can be a real health problem for some men: They pass out at the urinal when their autonomic system cues a drop in blood pressure!

My god. Danalan & MidnightRadio, thanks for the links. I shoulda known Cecil would have hit on it at least once. And I knew my little friend could get me in trouble…but I hope I never wake up with a knot on my head from the porcelain maw.

A limerick:  
_There was a young man from 'Stanbul  
Who soliloquized thus with his tool:  
“You stole all my wealth  
And you ruined my health  
And now you won’t **pee** you old fool!”_

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